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“Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?”

Thinking Born Woods Owl

Book:The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin. Accurately Corrected by the Best Editions. With the Author's Life and Character; Notes Historical, Critical, and Explanatory; Tables of Contents, and Indexes. More Complete Than Any Preceding Edition. In Eight Volumes

Source: The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin. Accurately Corrected by the Best Editions. With the Author's Life and Character; Notes Historical, Critical, and Explanatory; Tables of Contents, and Indexes. More Complete Than Any Preceding Edition. In Eight Volumes

“Lovely are the curves of the white owl sweeping Wavy in the dusk lit by one large star. Lone on the fir-branch, his rattle-note unvaried, Brooding o'er the gloom, spins the brown eve-jar.”

Night Stars White Darkness Notes Lovely Branches Brown Sunset Curves Lit Gloom Jars Sweeping Dusk Lone Owl Brooding

Author:George Meredith

“Beware The Court of Owls, that watches all the time, ruling Gotham from a shadowed perch, behind granite and lime. They watch you at your hearth, they watch you in your bed speak not a whispered word of them or they'll send the Talon for your head.”

Speak Behinds Watches Bed Court Ruling Owl Granite Limes Talons Gotham

Author:Scott Snyder

“The eastern light our spires touch at morning, The light that slants upon our western doors at evening, The twilight over stagnant pools at batflight, Moon light and star light, owl and moth light, Glow-worm glowlight on a grassblade. O Light Invisible, we worship Thee!”

Light Stars Morning Doors Moon Worship Western Invisible Evening Thee Pool Twilight Eastern Worms Owl Stagnant Moths Spires Glow Worms

Book:The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems

Source: The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems

“I really liked the snake that breaks out of the cage in the beginning of the movie. I saw it in real life, and it was really cool. Really big and fat. The owls are cool as well, but you can't really pet them.”

Wells Real Bigs Break Saws Real Life Fats Pet Cages Snakes Really Cool Break Out Owl

Author:Tom Felton

“When the Sun sets, shadows, that shew'd at Noon But small, appear most long and terrible; So, when we think Fate hovers o'er our Heads, Our apprehensions shoot beyond all bounds, Owls, Ravens, Crickets seem the watch of death, Nature's worst Vermine scare her God-like Sons. Ecchoes the very leavings of a Voice, Grow babling Ghosts, and call us to our Graves: Each Mole-hill thought swells to a huge Olympus, While we fantastick Dreamers heave and puff, And sweat with an Imagination's weight.”

“The owl, that bird of onomatopoetic name, is a repetitious question wrapped in feathery insulation especially for Winter delivery.”

Names Bird Winter Delivery Owl Insulation

Author:Hal Borland

“I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train.”

Thinking Hard Stupid Train Shocking Owl Not Stupid Shocking Things

Author:Robbie Coltraine